Wimpy Podcast Generator

by Mike Gieson
www.wimpyplayer.com
©2002-2005 plaino

NOTE: After clicking the example links, you should see a bunch of XML code. This is good. A podcast feed is nothing more than text-based XML code that instructs podcasting software how to locate your podcast files and provides information about your podcast.

NOTE: If you're using FireFox, you will see the following message at the top of the page:

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

This message does not mean that there is an error, it is simply stating that there is no style information associated with the XML file.

NOTE: The new version (version 1.3.0) uses an iTunes formattted podcast, which **should** work with most aggrigators. The file named "wimpy_podcast_old.php" uses a standard RSS feed XML format. Both files will work for most aggrigators, however, only the new version will display your podcast properly in iTunes.

EXAMPLES:

Text link:

Click to s ubscribe to our podcast

Text link code:

<a href="wimpy_podcast.php" target="_blank">Click to subscribe to our podcast </a>

Image Link:

Image link code:

<a href="wimpy_podcast.php" target="_blank"><img src="podcast_rss.gif" width="93" height="15" border="0" alt="podcast"></a>

INSTALLATION:

1. Edit the configuration options.

Open wimpy_podcast.php in a text editor and edit the variables in the CONFIGURATION section according to your needs.

2. Upload wimpy_podcast.php to the same folder as wimpy.php.

IMPORTANT: be sure to upload the getid3 library to the wimpy folder as well.

3. Create a link on your page to the wimpy_podcast.php file.

See example HTML code in this document (i.e. open this page in a text editor and look for the HTML code that begins with ".

In the example a relative path to wimpy_podcast.php is used, You should change any references to wimpy_podcast.php to use a full URL.

Example, rather than:

:"wimpy_podcast.php"

use:

"http://www.yoursite.com/mp3s/wimpy_podcast.php"